Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Jason Busby, founder of 3D Buzz, is dead.

For some reason there is very little information on this on the internet, and the Wikipedia article for 3D Buzz has vanished. This news is over a year old now, but I thought it important to make a concrete web entry of some sort for it. Here is the thread I found at 3D Buzz:
https://www.3dbuzz.com/forum/threads/204974-Jason-s-fight-is-over

According to the thread, Jason Busby passed on the morning of September 14th, 2017. This is probably why 3D Buzz hasn't done much the last few years, at least on YouTube, and some users may be experiencing issues with the site. Not sure who is running the show now. I will update more if I learn more.

Years ago the folks at 3D Buzz got wind of the tutorials I was doing, and one of the folks working there made an offer to have me come in and teach or add my tutorials. But that offer was later rescinded, I never knew why. Probably I didn't do or say the right thing. So I have always had a small chip on my shoulder against them. I really believed in what they were doing and that was like your hero telling you, "YOU SUCK!!!"

But I guess it was for the best. More and more I am seeing so many things I failed to implement and learn in level design, maybe I'll even find some things I did wrong in modeling. I would have been a good teacher, as far as relaying information. But if I taught based solely on what I had learned the lessons would not have been of 3D Buzz quality. I acknowledge this.

I hope Jason is happy wherever he ended up. Maybe his version of Heaven is a giant Tron world. I hope he is having fun, and I wish him well on his journey. He will be missed, but his work will live on. He has left quite a legacy.

I have left a talk page asking for the history of 3D Buzz to be added to Wikipedia, and linked to a page dedicated to Jason Busby and his work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:71.56.141.220